Psalms 42:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ”

Psalms 42:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deep calleth unto deep - The language used here would seem to imply that the psalmist was near some floods of water, some rapid river or water-fall, which constituted an appropriate illustration...
Psalms 42:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(g) Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. (g) Afflictions came so thick upon me that I felt overwhelmed: by which he shows there is...
Psalms 42:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 42, 43. Originally these two Pss. were one. This is proved by the long refrain common to each, Why art thou cast down, O my soul, etc. It recurs in Psalms 42:5 ; Psalms 42:11 and Psalms...
Psalms 42:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Depth calleth unto depth These words express the grievousness, as well as the number and long continuance, of the miseries which he suffered; as if he had said, I am oppressed not only wi...
Psalms 42:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Deep calleth unto deep - One wave of sorrow rolls on me, impelled by another. There is somethin...
Psalms 42:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deep called unto deep— Bishop Lowth observes, that no metaphor occurs more frequently in the sacred poems than that by which grievous and sudden calamities are expressed under the image of overflow...
Psalms 42:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts - expansion of the first clause...
Psalms 42:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Book 2 The second and third Books of the Psalter (Psalms 42-72, 73-89) are but the two parts of a whole, the largest section of which (Psalms 42-83) is called the Elohistic Psalter, because the na...
Psalms 42:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. — Better, Flood calleth unto flood at the noise of thy cataracts. The exile is describing what was before his eyes, and in his ears. There...
Psalms 42:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 42:1-11 , Psalms 43:1-5 THE second book of the Psalter is characterised by the use of the Divine name "Elohim" instead of "Jehovah." It begins with a cluster of seven psalms (reckoning...
Psalms 42:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Thirsting after God Psalms 42:1-11 This psalm clearly embalms the holy musings and yearnings of the exiled king during Absalom's rebellion. Their setting to music was left to the sons of Korah,...
Psalms 42:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the song of an exile and, moreover, of an exile among enemies who have no sympathy with his religious convictions. He cries out after God with all the intensity of one who knows God and cares...
Psalms 42:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Surely Christ is here. For of whom but him can it be said, that all God's waves went over him. Jonah, as a type of Christ, cried out of the belly of hell. And David typically considered might say the...
Psalms 42:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of the water spouts ,.... By which are meant afflictions, comparable to the deep waters of the sea, for their multitude and overwhelming nature; see Psalms 69:1...
Psalms 42:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Ver. 7. Deep calleth unto deep ] Vorago voraginem advocat, i.e. one calamity inviteth an...
Psalms 42:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deep calleth unto deep One affliction comes immediately after another, as if it were called for, or invited by the former. This he expresses by a metaphor taken from the old flood, when the upper d...
Psalms 42:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complaints and Consolations. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land o...
Psalms 42:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deep calleth unto deep, i.e. one affliction comes immediately after another, as if it were called for and invited by the former; which he expresseth by a metaphor taken either, 1. From the old fl...
Psalms 42:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘O my God, my soul is cast down within me, Therefore do I remember you from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. Deep calls to deep at the noise of your downpourings, All...
Psalms 42:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription : “To the Chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.” Maschil, an instruction, a didactic poem. “The sons of Korah,” descendants of Korah, were an important compan...
Psalms 42:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 42 This Psalm contains a prescription for a downcast soul, consisting of three ingredients. I. The first is inquiry: " Why art thou cast down?" Religious despondency must have a cause; an...
Psalms 42:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We often read this Psalm, because we are very often in the same state that the psalmist was in when he wrote it, and the language seems to suit us at many periods of our life. Psalms 42:1 . As the...
Psalms 42:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 42:3 . Tears have been my meat. I abstained from food to indulge in grief: my sorrows have superseded the desire of food. Psalms 42:6 . The hill Mizar; the little hill on which Zoar was...
Psalms 42:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. The Korachite psalms The second book of the Psalter, characterized by the use of the Divine name “Elohim” inst...
Psalms 42:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm, committed (like so many others) to the precentor, or. chief musician, for its musical setting, is entitled "Maschil of the sous of Korah"— i.e. an "instruction," or did...
Psalms 42:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

An Exile's Longing for Zion. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Temple-services, Maschil, a didactic poem, for the sons of Korah, written by some member of this L...
Psalms 42:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 7:26 ; Jeremiah 4:20 ; Job 1:14-19 ; Job 10:17 ; Jonah 2:3 ; Lamentations 3:53-55 ; Psalms 69:1 ; Psalms 69:14
Psalms 42:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deep — One affliction comes immediately after another, as if it were called for by the former. A metaphor taken from violent and successive showers of rain; which frequently come down from heaven,...

Psalms 42:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 42:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 42:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 42:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 42:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 42:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 42:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 42:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 42:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 42:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes